Toshiba NB200 Thread

Posted 06 June 2009 - 04:22 PM

mgruchy

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hey just figured i start a thread for this netbook since it was just released.

Got mine the other day and so far i am pretty pleased. Design is probably the best out there now in terms of netbooks. Eventually i would like to get OS X running on it and am wondering if any body else is/has tried installing it?

Posted 03 July 2009 - 08:35 AM

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hey just figured i start a thread for this netbook since it was just released.

Got mine the other day and so far i am pretty pleased. Design is probably the best out there now in terms of netbooks. Eventually i would like to get OS X running on it and am wondering if any body else is/has tried installing it?

Anybody else out there have the NB200?

i have ! just got it from a friend working at Toshiba's this morning, he kind of GAVE it to me... i a completely NEW to this thing, as i am a Mac user for years...but i really would like to turn this pretty little thing into a hackintosh, so if i can find some help here, i would be glad !

Posted 16 July 2009 - 08:12 PM

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i have ! just got it from a friend working at Toshiba's this morning, he kind of GAVE it to me... i a completely NEW to this thing, as i am a Mac user for years...but i really would like to turn this pretty little thing into a hackintosh, so if i can find some help here, i would be glad !

Just to let you know I accomplished this task. It wasn't hard as I thought it would be but it's great and way better than my HP Mini 1000 1030NR hackintosh. The NB205 runs the OS a lot smoother. I'm pretty satisfied with it. The only thing I couldn't get to work on it was the built in wifi and bluetooth. So instead of spending more time than needed on this issue, I got a compatible usb wifi and bluetooth dongle and everything is all good. I'm currently on the Toshiba posting on this thread.

The headphone jack does not work
BT not recognized, too bad
Wifi no solution yet (new Atheros half size mini PCI-E wireless N 150MBPS, good for windows, but I swapped it with a full size mini PCI-e wireless G card, formally from MSI Wind, with Realtek wireless utility, good reception.
Sleeping not working
About This Mac Crashed after upgrade to 10.5.7, still searching solution.

could wingzero619 share your experience on the sleep/about this mac if any success.
cheers!

The headphone jack does not workBT not recognized, too badWifi no solution yet (new Atheros half size mini PCI-E wireless N 150MBPS, good for windows, but I swapped it with a full size mini PCI-e wireless G card, formally from MSI Wind, with Realtek wireless utility, good reception.Sleeping not workingAbout This Mac Crashed after upgrade to 10.5.7, still searching solution.

could wingzero619 share your experience on the sleep/about this mac if any success.cheers!

Okay here goes: I swapped out the Artheros wifi card with a Broadcom card and got it working with no problem. Sleep/wake function works 100% without screen freezing on wake or losing trac pad funcionality. Headphone jack works when you switch the audio output to the jack itself. Time Machine is fully functional and tested. Battery indicator works. Fully upgraded to 10.5.7 without a problem. Webcam works. Quartz and Core Image fully supported (need this to run iLife 09). You can find my full install at the Hackintosh site: http://www.hackint0s.../f181/77504.htm

So far, it's been a fantastic netbook running a full functioning copy of Leopard and updated to 10.5.7. I have no complaints so far. Sound on it is better than what it was on XP. So no issues there. I guess you can say I was pretty successful with the whole conversion project. I am more active on the other site and helping others with the same project if you want to hang out there. Let me know if you have any questions. Below is one of the first installs I did showing that it is working. Since then, I've updated and got almost everything else working.

Posted 19 July 2009 - 04:06 AM

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thank you for sharing!

I found wired about my 6 cell battery, only less than 2 hours using time when fully charge while official specs said up to Battery Life: up to 9 hours (MobileMark 2007. My previous 6 cell MSI Wind had 6.5 hours)

Posted 19 July 2009 - 03:39 PM

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thank you for sharing!

I found wired about my 6 cell battery, only less than 2 hours using time when fully charge while official specs said up to Battery Life: up to 9 hours (MobileMark 2007. My previous 6 cell MSI Wind had 6.5 hours)

anyone could verify it?

That's very strange. I have OSX Leopard and I can easily get over 7 hours of battery life no problem. Try re-calibrating your battery. Run it till it dies, remove the battery, hold the power button for 10 seconds, re-install the battery and perform a full uninterrupted charge until 100%. Disconnect and run it until it does without charging it. You can determine how much battery life you get from doing this.

Posted 20 July 2009 - 02:45 AM

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That's very strange. I have OSX Leopard and I can easily get over 7 hours of battery life no problem. Try re-calibrating your battery. Run it till it dies, remove the battery, hold the power button for 10 seconds, re-install the battery and perform a full uninterrupted charge until 100%. Disconnect and run it until it does without charging it. You can determine how much battery life you get from doing this.

Thank you for the reply!I will do the calibration for the battery very soon.the thing bother me most now, is the sleeping. I don't know what options did you choose during installation, but I chose GMA950 in iDeneb 1.4 (10.5.6), then the video failed. very strange. I installed the kexts for MSI Wind to get screen worked fine. but the sleep never worked.

could you kindly give me a clue or simply attach the kexts you used, or exist in you Extension folder for the video/sleep. cause I've tired/format/reinstalled so many times that I don't want to waste more time on that.

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 05:37 AM

finally I figured out some problems, except the machine wouldn't sleep (wake up immediately) and battery has only 3 hours life. it's pretty useable.

If some one can share your successful experience on the sleep/wake up issue, please kindly give me a clue. Thanks!

@liupingguo: In your bios, disable the USB options. One is for the sleep charge and the other is a legacy usb option. Disable them and your sleep function will work fine. I can get at least 7 hours since the last time I tried it. So three hours on a new battery doesn't seem right at all. Here is a guide I created for the Hackint0sh website. It's a full installation guide and all the info you need on the Toshiba NB205: Toshiba NB205 installation guide by WINGZERO619

Posted 28 July 2009 - 04:21 AM

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I successfully installed the 10.5.7 on the NB200 thanks to the drivers posted in Hackintosh by wingzero619. Again, BIG THANK YOU!

instead of using iDeneb version, I perfer iPC 10.5.6 , xXx 10.5.6 and iATKOS v7 10.5.7. these are EFI ready, DSDT patched, and ready for native Apple upgrade. For my case, I can install with any of these easily. I figured out the sleep/wake up issue by using right GMA950 kext from the driver package provided by Wingzero619. your suggestion of turning off the USB legacy and charging function is absolutely right, now I get get over 7 hrs battery life and sleeping when close the lid.

Posted 28 December 2009 - 12:11 PM

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Hi,

A week or so ago I started upgrading my netbook nb200 to Mac and have since upgraded to 10.6.2, only outstanding issue is loss of sleep. I have tried the updated sleepenabler kext to no avail. Also the update reinstalled the applehda kext freezing the beast on restart due to the conflict with voodoohda. Removing apple HDA once again solved this. Despite attempts I also cannot get the atheros card to go. It gets erroneously picked up as a quite different device id. Strange. I have tried the device id in system profiler and the one the machine supposedly has along with the atherosfix kext all to no avail.

I notice this thread is rather dead but thought I would post in case anyone else has bitten the bullet with 10.6.2... Everything else seems to work although audio is still low. At least ethernet works and I now have a trackpad prefpane (was missing prior to 10.6.2)

p.s. can't check bluetooth as this low end Toshie nb200 doesn't have it :-(

Posted 25 January 2010 - 04:08 AM

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I successfully installed the 10.5.7 on the NB200 thanks to the drivers posted in Hackintosh by wingzero619. Again, BIG THANK YOU!

instead of using iDeneb version, I perfer iPC 10.5.6 , xXx 10.5.6 and iATKOS v7 10.5.7. these are EFI ready, DSDT patched, and ready for native Apple upgrade. For my case, I can install with any of these easily. I figured out the sleep/wake up issue by using right GMA950 kext from the driver package provided by Wingzero619. your suggestion of turning off the USB legacy and charging function is absolutely right, now I get get over 7 hrs battery life and sleeping when close the lid.

Posted 24 March 2011 - 02:48 PM

Posted 24 May 2011 - 04:15 AM

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I'm in the process of setting up my newly aquired NB200, so I'll add some comments as I go.

Currently upgraded to 10.6.5, which allows the original Atheros Wifi to work! All that's needed is the appropriate LegacyAtheros.kext http://www.insanelym...p...4570&st=20#Haven't tried the dsdt method from that post yet, but I plan to.

My sleep is currently not working however, it goes to sleep fine but immediately wakes. I've got sleep&charge off but legacy usb is still on, I've seen a suggestion that might be the cause, yet to check. I've needed legacy usb to install/boot till now.